Fery Kienesberger

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Fery Kienesberger (* 1957 in Gmunden ; † August 24, 2012 in Bogotá ) was an Austrian basketball player and coach.

career

Kienesberger joined the youth department of Union Gmunden in 1970 at the age of 13 . In the 1976/77 season he won the Austrian junior runner-up title with Gmunden. With the men's team, he became champions of the B-Bundesliga in 1977 and rose to the Bundesliga .

He worked as a coach in Aflenz from the beginning of the 1980s (at the predecessor club of the Kapfenberg Bulls ) and played a major role in the expansion of the basketball structures there, in Möllersdorf, Salzburg, Vienna, Gmunden and Fürstenfeld (1995/96). After the end of his one-year term in Fürstenfeld, he emigrated to Miami (US state Florida ) and in 2006 moved on to the Colombian capital Bogotá . There he worked as a coach at a basketball school. On August 24, 2012, Kienesberger died in Bogotá as a result of a heart attack. On the occasion of his death, nachrichten.at described Kienesberger as "one of the most colorful figures on the Gmunden basketball scene".

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Upper Austrian news: Fery Kienesberger: basketball legend has died . ( nachrichten.at [accessed on October 8, 2018]).
  2. ↑ The Story of a Basketball Miracle - BULLS Basketball . In: BULLS basketball . ( ece-bulls.com [accessed October 8, 2018]).
  3. ↑ https://www.panthers.at/Bundesliga/News/Ex-Coach-Fery-Kienesberger-gestorben
  4. ↑ http://www.basketballwien.at/News/detail.php?id=1116
personal data
SURNAME Kienesberger, Fery
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian basketball coach and player
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Gmunden
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 2012
Place of death Bogotá